By trying to avoid looking stupid, you end up becoming it

Our reading notes on Alex Hormozi

• Alex Hormozi on Becoming a Millionaire, Quieting Your Ego & Forgetting About Legacy

  Howes asks Hormozi about ego, what makes a product better and when to discuss price. Together those questions offer a way to examine a difficult sales conversation. A founder can be proud of the work and still learn that a customer cares about a different result.

• Alex Hormozi: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No

  About 37 minutes into this conversation, Hormozi uses an agency with a finite onboarding team to explain a credible limit on new work. A buyer can act on the actual next opening. The seller needs to check the schedule before attaching a deadline to the offer.

• I Offered $10,000 to Anyone Who Could Change My Mind | Ep 1013

  Hormozi invites entrepreneurs to challenge rules he has offered publicly. The chapter at 5:23 concerns which customers to sell to. Another, at 24:16, asks how much a founder should stake on one decision. The debate format gives the challenger a concrete job: find a situation in which following the rule produces a poor result.